BRIEFLY.Teens face adult murder charges Three teenage boys were charged as adults with capital murder for the Feb. 2 shooting deaths of two brothers at a Canoga Park fast-food restaurant, prosecutors announced Monday. A Juvenile Court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial judge found last week that Saul Emmanuel Rivera and Jesse Martinez, both 17, and Richardo Martinez, 15, were unfit to be tried as juveniles. The three are each charged with two counts of murder for the slayings of 16-year-old David Zapata, and his 15-year-old brother, Miguel, along with the attempted slaying of a 15-year-old boy in the 20900 block of Sherman Way. The murder charges carry the special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and murder to enhance a street gang, said Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman. Under California law California Law consists of 29 codes, covering various subject areas, the State Constitution and Statutes. See also
- City News Service L.A. photographer guilty in Diaz case A Los Angeles-based photographer was convicted Monday of forgery, perjury perjury (pûr`jərē), in criminal law, the act of willfully and knowingly stating a falsehood under oath or under affirmation in judicial or administrative proceedings. and attempted grand theft in connection with his June 2003 bid to sell topless photos he took of actress Cameron Diaz more than a decade earlier. The seven-woman, five-man jury deliberated for just under four hours over two days before convicting John Rutter John Milford Rutter CBE (born September 24 1945) is an English composer, choral conductor, editor, arranger and record producer. of the three felonies. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor ordered Rutter, 42, to be taken into custody immediately after the jury's verdict, saying he was a ``definite flight risk.'' Rutter is facing a maximum of more than five years in state prison when he is sentenced Sept. 15 at the downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or courthouse. - City News Service Resident arrested in police standoff BURBANK - Authorities on Monday said they were investigating what prompted a 28-year-old man to fire a gun inside his home and threaten to kill his family before being arrested after a four-hour standoff with police at his home. Kyle Harris was booked in lieu of $50,000 bail into the Los Angeles County Jail on charges of discharging a firearm after the standoff Saturday about 6:15 p.m. in the 2900 block of Buena Vista Avenue. He apparently was distraught, and fired several rounds inside his home - at least one round hit a neighbor's car, police said. A police Special Weapons and Tactics team was called in to surround the home, and nearby residents were evacuated as a precaution. After about four hours, the suspect surrendered. Police seized two rifles, a handgun and narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. from his home. - Daily News Man makes plea in gang beating BURBANK - A purported member of a local street gang pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he beat a fellow member to deter him from leaving the gang. Manuel ``Nemz'' Badalyan, 20, was being held at the Los Angeles County Jail in lieu of $110,000 bail while awaiting an Aug. 5 pretrial pre·tri·al n. A proceeding held before an official trial, especially to clarify points of law and facts. adj. 1. Of or relating to a pretrial. 2. hearing. He was arrested in June in Burbank and charged with felony street gang activity, battery and vandalism. The vandalism charge involved damage to the other man's car. - Daily News LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. to receive alcohol-law grant The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (or ABC) is an agency of the government of the state of California charged with regulation of alcoholic beverages. is giving the Los Angeles Police Department's Vice Division a $100,000 grant, it was announced Monday. The money is to be used to investigate problem businesses and educate employees of bars, liquor stores and restaurants about alcohol laws, according to the LAPD. - City News Service Judge gives DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection ultimatum on river An Inyo County judge ordered the city of Los Angeles' water department on Monday to either act on repeated court orders to restore the Lower Owens River or stop pumping water from it. Superior Court Judge Lee E. Cooper ordered the Department of Water and Power to stop pumping water from one of its aqueducts but stayed the decision pending the city's compliance with orders to reduce its groundwater pumping by one-third and begin recharging Owens Valley groundwater, the state Attorney General's Office said in a statement. - Associated Press |
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